Food Environment Atlas

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a new interactive site called the new Food Environment Atlas. This site allows you to take certain predetermined criteria and have them displayed on a map of the United States. For example, you can graph the availability of food stores or restaurants within a certain area. However, the site is not just limited to food issues. You can also plot the physical activity of adults or teenagers onto the map. You can look at where different races are concentrated in the United States. You can even look at the median household income. All in all, this is a great site to visit. I wish more government agencies gave access to data in this manner.

via : Food Environment Atlas

This story written by Paul Adams

Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.